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long. Pedicel gracile, usually elongate, slightly enlarged under 

 the flower, angulate, glabrous, green, often violaceous above, 

 erect-patent or spreading, attaining about Qi cm. long, shorter 

 than the leaves in fruit, bracteolate above the middle ; bracteoles 

 2, minute, linear-subulate, tapering, adpressed. Calyx (in fruit) 

 about 7 mm. long, glabrous, viridesceut ; sepals subulato-lanceo- 

 late, long-acuminate, the lateral 2 smaller and the lower 2 

 broader ; auricles short, ovato-deltoid or truncato- or retuso- 

 semiorbicular. Capsule about 13—15 mm. long, oblong-elliptic- 

 al, obtusely triquetrous, shortly subrostrato-acute at the apex ; 

 carpels oblong-lanceolate, boat-shaped, acute at the apex. Seeds 

 glabrous, smooth, obovoid-globose, with a short funicule, 2— 2| 

 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Tade-sumire (T. Makino), Ko-tachisumire (R. 

 Yatabe). 



Hah. Prov. Shinano (Herb. ! Imp. Mus. Tokyo), Mizoote 

 on Mt. Eboshi (K. Kurashima ! June 1909). 



A rare species. A characteristic point is the possession of 

 the attenuated base of the leaves. The superficial appearance 

 reminds some species of Polygonum. 



Viola nipponica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tol<wo, XXI. (1907) 

 p. 56, reprint, p. 9, nou Maxim. =Viola phalacrocarpoides 

 Makino, nom. nov. 



Didymoplexis pallens Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 IV. p. 383, tab. 17 (1844) ; Kurz in Seem. Journ. Bot. (1866) p. 

 40, excl. syn. Epiphanes et Gastrodia ; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XX. p. 311, tab. 28 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 122 ; 

 Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. p. 47 (1903) ; King et 

 Pantl. Orchid. Sikkim-Himal. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, 

 VIII. (1898) p. 260, tab. 346. 



Epiphanes pallens Reichb. fil. in Seem. Fl. Vit. (1865-73) 

 p. 296. 



